Category Archive: NewsLetters

Original students of Sensei George Mattson Van Canna and Art Rabesa will be honored at Summer Camp on Saturday night, where they will receive their 9th Dan certificates from the IUKF. This will be an historic evening. The IUKF Board is currently discussing and developing a set of guidelines for conferring the titles of Renshi, …

Sep 12, 2006 Lets look at our Discussion Forums… Where we started, what we’ve accomplished and where we are headed. The Future of our Forums. Certainly a lot has happened in the martial art world since I created one of the first martial art websites on the internet and invited Bill Glasheen to host the …

Wow!!!!While I’ve been traveling and busy with non-karate business, Van Canna has been setting records on the Forums; recently logging in a seemingly impossible number of posts (50,000) on his Reality based forum. Van works hard creating controversial and interesting topics. To do this, he will often take positions that force traditional martial artist to dig deep …